Bedrock Principles

Title:	Bedrock Principles
Subject:	Professional Development
Grade:	Educators
Time Frame:	1 hour (longer if background study needed)
Summary:	Educators will engage in a Think-Pair-Share-Compare to elicit their bedrock principles of education. We want to do it all. We can't do it all. What should guide our decisions when designing curriculum, classroom lessons/activities/projects/units, and professional development?
Tasks:	Memories Complete a quick Think-Pair-Share about attendees fondest learning memories at school Complete a second quick Think-Pair-Share about attendees fondest learning memories outside of school Whole group - discuss any commonalities/differences between the two 21st Century Complete a quick Think-Pair-Share on what is different about schools/learning today How similar/different from when they went to school What changes they have seen over the last few years technology-wise What changes they see coming in the future technology-wise Barinstorm a quick list of skills students are likely to need 10 years from now in society and work Watch video - Shift Happens or something similar Shift Happens 2013 Shift Happens Wiki Jigsaw - Pick 4 of the resources below enGauge Individually examine enGauge looking for what the group has already brought up (yellow highlighter) and what they missed (pink highlighter) Discuss whether or not this document could meet the groups needs as is or whether the group needs to come up with it's own guiding document. Eight Big Ideas Behind the Constructionist Learning Lab (Papert) 12 education guidelines from Alfie Kohn or 12 education guidelines from Alfie Kohn Covenant to Help Inspire Learning and Development (C.H.I.L.D.) (Dweck, Goyal, Jones, Kay, Kohn, Mogel Robinson, Zhou) John Seely Brown: Tinkering as a Mode of Knowledge Production Sowing the Seeds for a More Creative Society - Mitch Resnick Divide group into small groups of four and assign each group 1 of the resources Have individuals read/watch and take notes on resource In expert groups (all reading/watching the same resource) first compare notes. Then, discuss any connections to what they discussed during steps 1 & 2. Finally, summarize their resources perspective into no more than 5 bullet points they will share with the whole group. Share summaries as a whole group. Get into jigsaw groups (one expert from each resource) List what commonalities they saw between the four resources List what seems unique to each resource Create their own version of Papert's Big 8 as a Super Seven (+/-2) Share Super Sevens as a whole group Questions What ideas could guide decisions in our classroom/school/district? What ideas should be the non-negotiables in your classroom/school/district? How does this fit with existing learning theories? Current state/national standards? How would __ (fill in an educational theorist, guru, practitioner) view these principles? Does the order of importance matter? What if there is a conflict between two or more of these?
Objectives:	Add
Assessment:	How will you assess the students learning? Please identify opportunities for differentiation.
Resources:	Eight Big Ideas Behind the Constructionist Learning Lab (Papert) 12 education guidelines from Alfie Kohn or 12 education guidelines from Alfie Kohn Covenant to Help Inspire Learning and Development (C.H.I.L.D.) (Dweck, Goyal, Jones, Kay, Kohn, Mogel Robinson, Zhou) enGauge John Seely Brown: Tinkering as a Mode of Knowledge Production Sowing the Seeds for a More Creative Society - Mitch Resnick
Examples:	Links to teacher or student examples.

Discussion:

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Comment added: would it be of any benefit to add a Q...	swilkie	0	30	Jul 16, 2014 by swilkie